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Peter Ruti
Peter Ruti
Former President of Rwanda General Juvenal Habyarimana
How Habyarimana controlled his network of killers
Friday, September 19, 2025
Interahamwe during a training under the inspection of the French army in Rwanda in 1990s. File
How Habyarimana regime chose chaos, brutality over civility
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Former President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana
How lack of ideological clarity marred internal opposition against Habyarimana
Monday, September 08, 2025
Members of Interahamwe during a march in 1990s. In 1992, violence against the Tutsis was concentrated in Kibuye prefecture.
A look back at impact of Habyarimana’s use of violence as political strategy
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Interahamwe during the training ahead of the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1990s.
How Habyarimana regime chose political survival at the expense of citizens
Friday, August 15, 2025
Former President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana
How President Habyarimana made Rwanda ungovernable amid RPF struggle
Monday, August 11, 2025
Former President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana during Arusha Agreement.
How Habyarimana mismanaged political crisis, galvanising opposition
Monday, August 04, 2025
Umuganura, Rwanda's national harvest day celebrated on the first Friday of August. Craish Bahizi
How Umuganura is transcendental and unifying in Rwandan society
Friday, August 01, 2025
PHOTO BY CRAISH BAHIZI
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How Umuganura is transcendental and unifying in Rwandan society
Friday, August 01, 2025
President Habyarimana's MRND party proposed sharing ministerial posts, with the RPF expected to join a coalition government led by a Prime Minister and including opposition members.
Habyarimana's MRND maneuvred to circumvent Arusha peace protocol
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
President Juvénal Habyarimana during the signing of the peace agreement in Arusha, Tanzania
How Habyarimana regime sabotaged peace accords
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Paul Kagame and RPF representatives during talks with Habyarimana following the pressure due to the RPA military advances.
How Habyarimana accepted talks after pressure, RPA military advances
Friday, July 11, 2025
Rwanda Patriotic Army fighters register members during the Liberation Struggle in 1990s. Courtesy
Kwibohora: A look back at decades that preceded July 4, 1994
Friday, July 04, 2025
At the beginning of the liberation struggle, President Habyarimana requested France to help a French-speaking country that had been attacked by English-speaking feudalists supported by a foreign country.
RPF's proactive diplomacy made Habyarimana’s Western allies reconsider their moves
Thursday, July 03, 2025
RPF was portrayed as a reincarnation of the Inyenzi raids of the 1960s and a movement of Tutsi monarchists who did not accept the 1959 revolution.
When RPF attacked, Habyarimana tried to hoodwink the world
Saturday, June 28, 2025
In the morning of October 1, 1990, a few RPA soldiers attacked Kagitumba border post which they overran very easily after a brief encounter. File
How Habyarimana's intransigence occasioned RPF armed struggle
Thursday, June 19, 2025
RPA soldiers in 1990s. Rwandese Alliance for National Unity (RANU) was created after the failure of UNAR to usher in a new era. Time and evolution of events led RANU to morph into the RPF-Inkotanyi.
How RANU morphed into RPF as a liberation movement
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Rwanda Patriotic Army soldiers pose for a group photo during the Liberation War in 1990s. File
How refugees' exclusion at home and failure to integrate into host countries birthed RPF armed struggle
Thursday, June 05, 2025

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